474 So. 2d 13 | Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | 1985
By this petition for writ of certiorari, the state seeks review of an order of the trial court requiring it to determine whether the identity of a confidential informant is the same as the one named in defendant’s motion to disclose informant’s whereabouts and to furnish the best known address of the informer. State contends that the identity of the informer has never been established and that the motion to disclose whereabouts is in fact an attempt to discover the identity. Respondent contends that the order merely requires state to comply with its duty to disclose the whereabouts of a confidential informant once the informant’s identity has been revealed.
The record before us does not support a finding that the identity of the confidential informant who provided the information to